Winner:  Grand Jury Prize for Best American Independent Film, Hamptons International Film Festival

Co-produced by Scout Productions

"More essential than so much of what's on view today. [It] lets us look at ourselves with an acuity we'd love to recover for good." 

Will Joyner, The New York Times

"Modest coming-of-age film packs a wallop because the crises in the life of its young protagonist turn out to really matter....a remarkable performance...a strong script with believable characters...pic works through understatement and an accumulation of small but telling moments...performances are all on the mark...adding to the film's pro polish."                                                                                                  

Daniel Kimmel, Variety

"It's the extraordinary performance that Foley draws from [Stephanie] Castellarin that gives the film its vital center…For all its finesse and emotional veracity, Home Before Dark is above all generous as it revisits some keenly felt personal history and ties together its loose ends with love and empathy.”                                                                                     

Jay Carr, The Boston Globe

Soundtrack by Séamus Egan

Music by Sam Amidon and Assembly

Jack (Billy Smith) has fulfilled the dream of his late father, a Boston cop, by becoming a decorated firefighter. But in the aftermath of a blaze that claimed his closest friend, he’s struggling to make sense of his life, and of his feelings for a complicated young woman on a journey of her own.

Niall (Sam Amidon), an accomplished fiddle player, is offered the chance of a lifetime: he can have everything his father ever wanted for him, if he gives up everything he ever wanted for himself.

An “American wake” was a party, held on the eve of an Irish immigrant’s departure. Joyous and yet infused with the grief of parting, it marked the moment when one life ended and another began.

Co-Directed with James Rutenbeck

For thirty years, a group of fiddle players and musician friends have been gathering yearly to make music on instruments built by the violin maker, Bob Childs.

In November of 2019, they gathered for one final performance at Sanders Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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In Development

Hugh Hamilton, a handsome young Londoner of Anglo-Irish descent, enjoys a life of ease and pleasure. He doesn’t think too hard about what funds this comfortable existence. But when his grandfather becomes too ill to run the family estate in Ireland, Hugh is dispatched to Connemara at the height of An Gorta Mór, known widely as the Great “Famine”.

There, he glimpses for the first time the plight of his family’s tenants. He comes into bitter conflict with his callous and cash-strapped father. He also falls in love with Delia Cunningham, his grandfather’s nurse.

But Delia’s entangled in a web of her own, with one brother involved in political violence and another, a child of seven, under her care.

Hugh and Delia face one another over a chasm of social class and centuries of struggle for Irish independence. Love may not be enough.

Co-produced by Element Productions and Cronin & Company

Susan Goodwin Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1976, at the age of 36.  Before she died, she made her sister, Nancy, promise to do everything she could to try to put an end to breast cancer.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is how Nancy Brinker kept her promise.

The Komen Foundation’s “Race For The Cure” and other community-based initiatives raise funding for local programs and services. To foster and sponsor research on an international scale, the Foundation turns to corporate partners.

“For The Cure” tells the story of how a promise made and kept has brought hope and support to tens of thousands of breast cancer survivors and their families. And led to vital scientific breakthroughs in the effort to understand and eradicate the disease.